Aish Raj Dahal
Aish is an engineer who currently works on GitHub Codespaces. In the past he has worked in high growth companies like Slack, PagerDuty where worked in building resilient real time data pipelines. Prior to that he had spent time at HackerRank and Goldman Sachs.
Working sideways
Aish Raj Dahal touches upon this slightly less talked about aspect of the job as a technical IC leader, which is creating peer relationships and working with other Staff engineers in shaping an organization’s technical roadmap.
Scaling performance at the scale of Slack
One of the major challenges faced by teams working on high growth product is of performance. Systems that are built for a given scale of users often fail to deliver the necessary throughput when run with orders of magnitude of load more than what they are built for. Software teams have historically resorted to a myriad set of ways in scaling performance.